Control Quotes

"Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man." "The two things in life you are in total control over are your attitude and your effort." "The greater the state, the more wrong and injustice it commits" "If you’re yelling you’re the one who’s lost control of the conversation." "Big Brother is watching you." "If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever." "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." "A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it." "In chess, one cannot control everything. Sometimes a game takes an unexpected turn, in which beauty begins to emerge" "The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people." "Those who do not have power over the story that dominates their lives—the power to retell it, rethink it, deconstruct it, joke about it, and change it as times change—truly are powerless" "Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined" "Decentralization is not just a buzzword; it's a commitment to ensuring that no single entity has control" "You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them." "It’s the one thing you can control. You are responsible for how people remember you—or don’t. So don’t take it lightly." "I don’t want chumps, I don’t want pushovers, and if you’re a chump and a pushover, I will run over you." "Be extremely subtle even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent's fate." "Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world, which we have developed inside us as a result of biological and psychological necessities." "It's OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket." "He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still."